On January 4, Tripoli’s historic Al Sa’eh Library, one of Lebanon’s largest, burnt down. Two-thirds of its 80,000 books and manuscripts were lost in a fire that consumed the building. This is no anomaly…
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The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported that information technology and biotech entrepreneurs are beginning to displace mining magnates at the top of the nation’s rich lists. Out goes resources tycoon…
Malala Yousafzai is no ordinary young woman. She has addressed the United Nations, won international prizes and was subject of a short documentary on her life by the New York Times. This is in addition…
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” says Hamlet upon welcoming Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to the “prison” that is Denmark. But if you’re reading this from the British Library…
It’s estimated that in 2011 a truly staggering 1.8 zettabytes of digital information was created. Or to put it in more meaningful terms, that’s 57.5 billion 32-gigabyte iPads full. Recent articles about…
We all know the internet has enabled the creation of digital worlds of multi-layered, interconnected online information. But who’s going to protect this information for current and future generations…
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Deputy University Librarian, University of California, Merced
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Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro Jacyk Resource Centre, University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
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Baker Endowed Chair and Professor of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
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Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Associate professor, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Visiting Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Postdoctoral Fellow—Indigenous and Colonial Histories, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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